Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington DC (1980-1990) is the subject of a special screening in The Sugar Club on Tuesday October 15th
The tenth anniversary screening of the documentary will also feature a Q&A (over Zoom) with the director Scott Crawford. Tickets from €12.
“Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)” examines the early DIY punk scene in the Nation’s Capital. It was a decade when seminal bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Scream, Void, Faith, Rites of Spring, Marginal Man, Fugazi, and others released their own records and booked their own shows-without major record label constraints or mainstream media scrutiny. Contextually, it was a cultural watershed that predated the alternative music explosion of the 1990s (and the industry’s subsequent implosion). Thirty years later, DC’s original DIY punk spirit serves as a reminder of the hopefulness of youth, the power of community and the strength of conviction.
Crawford started a fanzine called Metrozine that documented much of what was happening in the DC hardcore punk scene in the 1980s, before making the film.
Watch a trailer:
